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Bradford, Malson & Merrifield ~ Dad's Family Heritage

The following is an account written in the words
of Lee Luella Miller Condos Roberts.

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THE BEGINNING

By the year 1039, "Llewellyn the Great" was high chieftain of all Wales. According to one of his laws "now and hereafter, the first male child born to a Llewellyn kinsman is to be named Llewellyn. The first born female born to a kinsman is to be named Llewellynah."

JOHN WEBSTER MILLER

In 1823, a second son born was named Johhnyn Webster. To him and wife (Barbara May), a first born son named Llewellyn Webster born 1887. To him and wife, Verna Belle Unroe, a first born daughter named Llewellynah Edythe in 1912 (Llewellyn Webster - Luell Webster; Llewellynah Edythe - Lee Luella).

LUELL MILLER & SONS, ca 1930s

My Mom's Dad, Luell, is in the middle,
brother, Clare, is on the left and
brother, Lloyd, is on the right.

 

 

LEE "LLEWELLYNAH" MILLER
age 6 months


Mom was named for her father, Luell,
but the doctor put Lee on the birth certificate
instead and she became Lee Luella.


By the 1800's, England conquered Wales (from the book "History of Wales" by James Davies, pages 100-718). Several Welsh clans fleeing Wales in the early 1800's (1805) migrated to New York and Pennsylvania to work in coal mining and farming.

LLOYD BRENTON MILLER

My uncle in Tucson, Arizona in 1963.
 
 

The following is from conversations and letters, scraps of information on paper and family bibles dated 1800-1900, Grandpa Paul, Grandma Miller, Aunt Jessie, Dad (Luell Webster Miller) and Uncle Carl Unroe. Ezra Purdy and Luell Miller were only friends and no relation. Purdy was a farm auctioneer.
Descendants of original Welsh clans were closely knit through the following years. Grandpa Paul, married Edythe Ilah Belle Cross Unroe in 1905 after George Unroe was killed in 1903 while working in Columbus, Ohio for the Ohio railroad as a brakeman.





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